Creative Critical Reflection

Here is my Creative Critical Reflection to my movie The Dream
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My two minute film opening

Here is my film opening for my movie The Dream

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DONE!!

 I am ecstatic to announce that I am officially done with my project and will be posting it momentarily. But before I do that, there is a couple of people that I want thank. I would like to thank my two best friends Angela Mujica and Stephanie Tamayo for being a part of my film. Additionally, I would like to thank my parents and friends for constantly giving me feedback on my film opening.
 Honestly, this has been one of the most enjoyable projects I have done thus far. And the amount of knowledge that I have gained has been extensive over the past couple of weeks. So I hope when people watch my project they can see the amount of hard work I put into it.

The Journey of my Film Opening

  Yesterday, as I was finally putting together all the videos to come up with the first seconds of my film opening, I realized how much work editors put in to come up with good content. Which made me realize the little amount of appreciation that many don't give to people who work in this area. This has led me to learn so much about the importance of different takes and how each can lead to a more profound thought as to how the production is seen. One aspect which I feel benefited immensely is taking many different angle shots of the same thing. This gave me the ability to change my mind in many different circumstances, and not feel worried about having to retake the same thing again. Moreover, it gave me the ability to get into deeper detail what I wanted in each frame of my entire film opening.
 I also had the opportunity yesterday to create the name for the company which is making my film opening. The name that I came up with is Dreamland Films. And the studio is called Skyline. The background that I decided for the parent company is a scene of waves crashing, I inputted the sound of birds and waves crashing, I inputted the sound so the audience can really capture where it is taking place. Additionally, whenever the audience hears the sound again they associated it with the company itself.

Research on 90210

   So I have great new, I officially edited the first 40 seconds of my film which include the establishing of the movie. This is to let the audience capture the essence of Cypress Bay. As I was doing this, I got a lot of my inspiration from the television show 90210 (2008-2013). The first couple of seasons of the show occur in Beverly Hills High, what is great about this high school is the similarity that it has with Cypress Bay. Being that the location is similar, the weather has high temperatures so the costume of the characters is very similar to that of Florida, and the type of people are similar as well. So what I really looked at was how they established the school the first couple of minutes of each episode towards the first and second season. A lot of the shots were composed of mid-shots and wide shots which included many people with similar clothing talking to their friends and having a good time. This would then emphasize even further when one of the main characters felt the same way as the environment in the school itself. Which is exactly what I hope to portray in my film opening. That is why I want to spend a large portion of my film opening in showing the surroundings of Cypress. So that my audience can capture the idea which I want to portray to them.
  The video above is one in which I might incorporate into my film because it shows that luxurious side of Weston. This is clearly seen from the expensive sports car passing by. Moreover, Cypress Bay brings that as well since the campus is extremely nice and most individuals are very well dressed.

Purple Planet research

   Hi! So the due date for the project is extremely near, and I feel extremely confident thus far in my progress and in the project itself. There have been many obstacles that have come in my path, including an issue in the editing process of the video itself but other than that I believe I am in the right track to finishing this project in a very successful manner. Moreover, I officially know the song which I want to include in my opening film which is not copyrighted and really expresses the overall idea that I want to bring to Cypress Bay.  Which is an exciting school with a lot of diversity from its students and faculty, as I said before in a previous post. Where I found the song was in a website called purple-planet.com, and it is called Ecstasy. The song itself incorporates many guitars and different melodies to create that uplifting feel. Which stress that even further into my film opening. So far, I don't know what part of the song I want to include in my film that will all depend when I start editing tonight and putting it together. But so far that is the only difficulty that I have come across. Hopefully by tomorrow I will have the opportunity to publish a post on what I have done thus far in my opening film. :)